First Episode February 25th Featuring,
Wendi Phan
Wendi Phan of Wendiland.com is a long-time friend of the Urban Gardener channel and has appeared in many of our videos. Wendi is a fun and passionate gardener specializing in small-space gardening on her long-running YouTube channel and we are excited to have her for our first episode!
So be sure to join us.
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March 4th Featuring,
Gardener Scott
Joining us this week is Scott Wilson of the Gardener Scott Youtube channel.
Scott is the quintessential gardener of YouTube and offers a wide array of gardening lessons on his channel. This week we have the pleasure of digging into his gardening story and find out what he loves most about gardening!
So be sure to join us.
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March 11th Featuring,
Greg Peterson
Greg Peterson created www.urbanfarm.org from a passion for Urban Farming. This passion grew as he created 'The Urban Farm' in Phoenix, Arizona, on 1/3 of an acre where he planted 70+ fruit trees. There, and online, Greg educates and empowers people to plant their own! Through this entity, he offers food-growing-related classes both online and in-person, as well as events to promote fruit trees and vegetable seeds combined with topic-related education.
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March 18th Featuring,
Bevin Cohen
This week’s featured guest is Bevin Cohen of the Small House Farm. Bevin (Ben) is an author, herbalist, seed saver, and host of the popular Seeds & Weeds podcast. He lives and works at Small House Farm with his wife, Heather, and two sons, Elijah and Anakin, on their family homestead in Sanford, Michigan.
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March 25th Featuring,
Scott Head
Scott Head has been gardening since childhood and began his YouTube channel in 2014 as a way to teach whoever might tune in how to grow food in the hot subtropics of the Texas coast. The Black Gumbo Southern Gardening channel is a teaching channel, aimed at both beginners and intermediate gardeners, and showcases the good and the ugly in a small backyard plot typical of suburban homes. Scott grows a wide variety of perennial and annual food crops and began the Single Seed Challenge, a very successful YouTube social experiment. Scott has been married for 30-plus years and has three children, all of whom learned a little gardening along the way.
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April 1st Featuring,
Jere Gettle
Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Company
Jere Gettle started Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Company when he was 17 years old, with $100 and a tote bin full of heirloom seeds he had grown on his family’s homestead in the Missouri Ozarks. Today Baker Creek is North America’s largest heirloom seed company, offering about 1,000 varieties of heirloom varieties from around the world. Though the company has grown from a teenager’s hobby to a thriving global business, Jere’s passion for heirlooms, gardening, healthy eating, community, and self-sufficiency remains at the heart of the business and serves to inspire others.
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April 8th Featuring,
LaManda Joy
LaManda Joy is an author, speaker, master gardener, and a firm believer that the world is a better place with more gardeners in it. She is the founder and former executive director (2010-2019) of the award-winning Chicago-based nonprofit food gardening education program, Peterson Garden Project, and the author of Start a Community Food Garden: The Essential Handbook by Timber Press. LaManda frequently speaks on the importance of community and gardening education across the country in both public and business settings. She is co-founder of the Great Grow Along - a virtual spring garden festival dedicated to bringing together the worldwide community of gardeners with great education, connection, and joy.
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April 15th Featuring,
Karen Hugg
Karen Hugg is a green wellness designer, author, and professional gardener with over 25 years of experience. Her latest book, Leaf Your Troubles Behind: How to Destress and Grow Happiness through Plants, helps people relieve their stress by engaging with the joys of nature.
With an MA, MFA and certification in horticulture, Karen has contributed to The Washington Post, Wired, Thrive Global, and other national media outlets. She’s been featured on the TV show New Day Northwest and as an expert source for Mind Body Green and other magazines. Her thoughts on plants and mental health can be heard on multiple podcasts including Brain Matters and New Books Network.
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April 22nd Featuring,
Nick Federoff
Nick Hosts the many faces of Things Green from his TV & radio shows to his special appearances and other media events. Nick delivers tons of gardening information while keeping it fun and entertaining.
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April 29th Featuring,
Tony O’Neill
Tony O’Neil is host of the UK YouTube channel Simplify Gardening. On his channel, he covers everything garden-related, beekeeping, and poultry keeping. If you have that nagging question or just don't know what to do, then he has you covered. Learn all the hints, tips, tricks, and hacks to get the very best out of your garden.
Tony is also the author of the gardening books “Your First Vegetable Garden,” and “Composting Masterclass.”
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May 25th Featuring,
Gary Pilarchik
Gary is the host of the popular long-running YouTube channel “The Rusted Garden.” He makes videos and covers all aspects of vegetable gardening from seed starting to tending, harvesting, cooking, and provide tools and ideas to battle garden pests and diseases. He has nearly 2000 garden videos between his two channels.
Gary has inspired many gardeners over the years and joins us to tell us about his passion for gardening and what he loves most about it.
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May 27th Featuring,
Ciscoe Morris
Ciscoe has been a Northwest gardening treasure for several decades. He was the head gardener at Seattle University when he made the move to answering gardening questions on KIRO radio and eventually doing gardening segments for various KING 5 newscasts.
Ciscoe brings a vibrant passion to gardening and loves to share his joy of plants with anyone. He is also the author of the gardening books “Ask Ciscoe” and “Oh la, la”
June 3rd Featuring,
Jamiah Hargins
Jamiah is a chronic social entrepreneur, community leader, and self-proclaimed gardengineer. He is the founder of Crop Swap LA, which is determined to grow food in unused spaces, creating green jobs, independent economies, and nutrient-dense food.
With a team of 21 urban farmers and administrators, they have installed and managed three water-recycling front yard micro-farms that use just 8% of the water previously used for grass to grow and collect fruit and vegetables for 70 families.
